Accelerating Next Tech Twente: Where purpose-driven innovation shapes the future

In Twente, innovators work across fields such as semiconductors, medtech, robotics, photonics, and advanced manufacturing to deliver solutions with global impact. The region combines a compact, highly connected network of universities, research institutes, shared facilities, and high-tech companies, enabling rapid prototyping, collaboration, and scaling.

Twente's strength lies in the unique collaboration between entrepreneurs, government and education: a compact ecosystem where decisions are made quickly and innovations reach the market faster. As the core region of Tech.Land, Twente and Münsterland together form a cross-border deep-tech zone with access to 11 million consumers and high-tech industry.

Technologies are designed, built, tested, and refined within walking distance, accelerating the path from idea to implementation. Whether in next-generation chip design, medical simulation environments, quantum photonics, or advanced manufacturing, Twente consistently demonstrates how collaboration fuels innovation.

Real examples in medtech and sustainable technology

Accelerate Next Tech captures real examples of this ecosystem in action, highlighting companies and research partners driving breakthroughs in medtech and sustainable technology. It paints a picture of a region where future technology is not only envisioned, it is engineered and launched.

Susan van Boxtel, team manager Foreign Direct Investment at Oost NL: “Twente is a deep-tech hotspot with exceptional strengths in medtech, chiptech and defense industry. And we are offering a welcoming business climate for international companies to accelerate their European expansion.”